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3PURPOSE OF REPORT The status of Native American tribal transportation programs has not been the subject of much major research; hence, the literature on the topic is relatively scarce. Most of that literature consists of case studies of individual tribal situations, reviews of the legal framework and its evolution, or proceedings of conferences exploring one or more dimensions of the subject.
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ORGANIZATION OF REPORT We have organized this report into four chapters, followed by appendixes that include the individual tribal profiles and afford the reader supporting information about how the study was conducted and what resources were consulted. The goal is to provide readers with the most straightforward presentation possible of the underlying structure not only of tribal transportation programs, but of the tribal governance structure that sustains them, followed by the data collected by the American Planning Association (APA)
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525,600 miles of state, county, and local government public roads. In FY 2006, the program budget was approximately $330 million, subject to congressional allocations.
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"medium" as 2,001 to 50,000; and "large" as those with more than 50,000 individuals. Of the 30 profiled tribes, 12 fell into the small category, 16 into the medium category, and only 2, the Navajo and Cherokee Nations, qualified as large.
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